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Are you new to r/acting, but don't want to use the search function? READ THIS BOOK INSTEAD by Psynergy • last post Jul 28th
[Jenna Fischer - The Actor's Life: A Survival Guide](https://www.amazon.com/Actors-Life-Survival-Guide/dp/1944648224) Many of us have posted before on how good the book is (in fact, it's in our [Recommended Reading List)](https://www.reddit.com/r/acting/comments/2jdu6k/revised_reading_list_1014/), but I thought I'd post again because I cannot stress enough how good it is. The book walks you through, step by step, many of the points that have been asked here time and time again, including: * How to start a career as an actor * How to get training * What to expect in an audition * How to get an agent * What to expect when cast * How to behave on set * When to fire your agent * What to do when you get fired And many more. READ THIS BOOK
does anybody still in the "early" stages of being pro go months without auditions but then get really good ones out of the blue? by Ilikedogs1500 • last post Jul 28th
it's such a mind fuck, honest to god. i go months and months without an audition, but then on monday I have one for a series regular with a big time actor as the main role. but then after that i'm sure ill go another month or two without one. it just doesn't make any sense to me. i know i need to update my headshots and get some killer shots that reflect my further knowledge about myself and what indsutry is looking for, i know i need more professional reel footage since most of mine is indie / low budget stuff, and i know I can always get better, and all the things i have to do.... that all cost money of course. but like... if i was getting auditions like the one i have on monday, of which i've had similiar caliber ones before... but instead of being so damn in frequent over the course of a few years now, but more on a regular basis, i feel like i would be good enough to finally book one of these. but the ridiculous sporadic nature of them... is just insane to me. i wish i could make my agents just focus on getting me some co-stars so maybe that would increase the frequency of auditions I receive? then i could have more money to be taking more classes to be acting on a more regular basis instead of constantly waiting tables and then randomly having to practice hardcore for 4 days when i get one of these things. i know each audition is a gift. and i am incredibly grateful for it, and it's a great fucking awesome fun role, it's just awesome. i just can't get over how much of a mind fuck it is..... and how the biggest challenge for me thus far has been somehow establishing that balance of having enough money to be acting on a more regular basis... while maintaining the flexibility TO be acting on a more regular basis.. while getting audtioins at the same time. it's always SO lopsided and out of balance and out of whack for me. always. i just dont get it. am I alone here? is this how it was for anybody else out there that may be a few steps ahead or can look back and be like.. oh shit thats exactly how it was for me and I did XYZ to get to get to the next level (save money from waiting tables without losing my goddamn mind i guess, blah)
receving sides by leeval11 • last post Jul 28th
hey guys so i've been kind of unlucky with actors access. i would submit for a role that I really want to audition for but don't get sides from the casting director. is anyone else in the same position as well? how long does it usually take for a casting director to cmail you sides from actors access?
Beginner male voice actor here by ListTheMist • last post Jul 28th
Hello everyone, I am a 16 year old boy who is a beginner voice actor, if you can call me a beginner, Ive practiced voice acting for 2 years now but have never really gotten around to recording it , just doing it for fun and stuff like that until I realized that I LOVE how it sounds and its fun, I personally think Im pretty good, apart from being a voice actor (or not really yet) Ive had my fair share of theatrical actor experiences (apologies for spelling mistakes since English is not my mother tongue).I would love to help with any projects anyone has and would do them for free until I get some more experience, if anyone would like to hear my voice acting please email me at haotik.master@gmail.com or comment on here, thank you in advance everyone ^^
Managing Energy by mangonautica • last post Jul 28th
So, I’m complaining about having too much to do. Roll your eyes, then please give me some advice. I’m working on three projects at the moment - I’m not a professional actor, but it’s my passion. I’ve been cast in two community theatre plays and a short film. I’m finding it hard to manage character study and learning lines for all three parts. Anyone worked on multiple projects? How do you maintain your energy and focus?
FEMALE ACTORS NEEDED IN REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA SUNDAY JULY 26TH, 2019 by fukinfrankie • last post Jul 27th
If interested, message or email deadbeatsummermovie@gmail.com for more details, including set time, Thanks! Female Student #1 Short Film ,Female, 20-27yrs old, Redlands/Inland Empire, California Needed on Sunday July 26th 2019, Compensation: Non-Paying,Non-Union + Food will be available character breakdown:typical academic college student, intellectual type, passionate about film, modest wardrobe Ethan's Mom Short Film Female, 45-55yrs old, height: 5'6-5'10 preferably, Redlands/Inland Empire, California Needed on Sunday July 26th 2019 Compensation: $50, Non-Union + Food will be available character breakdown: grieving mother, well-put together, confident, attractive, classy, modest wardrobe i.e. cardigan, pants.
Question about Actors Access by leeval11 • last post Jul 27th
Hello! I'm pretty new to AA and I just submitted for a role without a reel and my resume is not the best either... How long do is it usually take for a casting director to email you sides if you're chosen?
Acting on Lambda grades? by IThinkThisIsAUser • last post Jul 27th
I’m wondering how to become an actor on Lambda grades, I got to grade 7 when I was younger
Is moving to London and trying to be an actor a realistic plan? by throwawayactor98 • last post Jul 27th
Hey everyone, throwaway account. I am from the UK and I’m planning to move to London this autumn to pursue my acting career. I’m 21 and have done amateur theatre & student films for a while now, and I just graduated university reading English & Drama. Other actors my age seem to have made it without going to drama school already; So how realistic is this. Moving to London and sharing a house with a lot of other people so it’s cheap, doing part time classes at the Actor’s Centre or something of that sort (I’m very open to suggestions) and working full time to save up money. That’s my plan. I have zero connections to the industry and can’t bear to stay in my small town anymore. I want to be a proper working actor. If anyone has any advice (even if it’s to tell me it’s dumb moving to London without going to drama school) I’d be very grateful. Any advice, please, as I have no clue if this is a good idea. Emma Corrin, Jack Bannon, Anya Taylor Joy, Fionn Whitehead, Florence Pugh, Jessica Brown Findlay, they all made it without drama school. But getting a great agent seems to be what formed their careers. Thank you in advance.
Received a few suspicious “booking” emails... by felatedbirthday • last post Jul 27th
Anyone get emails from a production company called Holy Grail Productions? They are promising $5k for a commercial shoot and told me I “booked” something from them just finding my info on actors access. It seems sketchy af and is written absurdly, but so far they haven’t asked for any social security or other scammy info. Here’s my last weird email from them, for whoever wishes to read: Hello (felatedbirthday), We have acknowledged the receipt of your information via email, and have properly examined it. After going through your profile, Our highly esteemed Team Of Professionals have been able to access your credibility and potential. Based on this fact, the Board of Holy Grail Productions have decided to grant you an opportunity to partake in this shoot. On the above subject matter, the Holy Grail Productions hereby congratulates you on your successful emergence. It is a great honor to have you in our team. Congratulations and welcome! We hope you will have an amazing time working with us, we are looking forward to a successful working relationship. We believe in your skills, talents and knowledge that you can use for our clients and company’s improvement. Further details are as follows: REMUNERATION : $5,500 USD [ (Upfront : $450) (Balance : $5,050 to be paid immediately after the shoot) RETAINER & WARDROBE EXPENSES : You’ll receive an All-In-One Check for $4,900 (This payment check is different from your balance payment for $5,050 you will receive upon completion of the shoot) . The All-in-one check is to cover for your upfront booking payment ($450) and that of your wardrobe expenses. As soon as you have your $450 deducted from the $4,900 you will be asked to use the remaining $4,450 to shop your wardrobe, further instructions on how, where and what kind of wardrobe to obtain will be provided to you. Please confirm that you understand and agree to this. LOCATION OF THE SHOOT : We have to make sure everything is in place before we confirm our location booking. We are currently looking between studios because we need to pick one enough to contain the number of people coming for the day shoot . So I'll let you know the details ahead of time as soon as you have your wardrobe in place. (48 hours to the shoot ) OTHER REQUIREMENTS : You must take directions and please be easy to work with. Good working relationship can mean long term working relationship with the company. MEASUREMENT & STATS: Kindly provide us with the information below where applicable Age Height Eyes Bust Waist Hips Dress Shoes REQUIRED INFORMATION Name on Check : Address and apartment number (If any) : City, State and Zip code : Cell phone number : A copy of government issued ID (Driver’s License) : P.S - Please provide the correct address and apartment number to avoid misplacement of mail or parcel sent out to you. MODEL RELEASE/CONTRACT LETTER : The model release and agreement letter has been attached to this email below, kindly endorse it with your signature (Download or have it endorsed electronically) and revert via email. You can also sign it electronically. Please be kind to send the measurement & stats and contract letter as soon as possible as we cannot proceed without it. Thanks in anticipation Regards... Nick Parker Casting Director / Project Supervisor Holy Grail Productions www.holygrailproductions.com
10 Female voice actors with the most characters by omegaph3nom • last post Jul 27th
[https://youtu.be/jgDOQsTHNi8](https://youtu.be/jgDOQsTHNi8)
Can we talk about the SKILL of acting and hard work? by KtoMM199 • last post Jul 26th
We all know, to make it, you have to be a hard working. meaning cosntant auditions, networking, etc.. but lets talk about the SKILL of acting. ​ How much of that is hard work vs natural skills like charisma, empathy, etc...? ​ Can you guys give me detailed idea of how much hard work can help you improve your acting skills? I know of PLENTY of actors who constantly practice acting but they just cant get it ​ Some skills, the ahrder you work, the better you get most of the time, acting seems different as its a mix and match. Some work hard and get it and some work ahrd and dont
I’d like to become more involved on a friendlier level with the people in my drama department and enhance my skills in theatre (musical theatre) and acting, but I feel that I’m already at my limit with the choices I’ve been provided. by smhpug • last post Jul 26th
Hey, so this is going to be long since I’d like to include as much about myself as possible for a better look at my situation from the outside. I’ve posted the story to another performing arts sub, but I really hope I can find more answers in this friendly subreddit (if even appropriate to post in) as well. Allow me to explain: I’m a 16 year old girl, and I was more of a late bloomer as to figuring out my passion for theatre. Up until 8th grade, I constantly did art for fun and for hopes of getting into an art school for college. In fact, I was more of one of those Asian stereotypes of an artist. You know, considerably really really talented for their age simply because they’re Asian? That was, until I learned the hard way that art in a professional setting severely limits your creativity and also ruins your motivation. I also learned that art was simply just a hobby for me and under no circumstances did I want to do it professionally. When I entered high school, I decided to further dig into my childhood enjoyment for CATS and for “musical” cartoons through testing the waters and giving the soundtracks of many well known musicals a listen. I gotta say, I was pretty hooked after that. I also remember facing the crippling regret of not enrolling into drama nor choir for my freshman year, as I’d sit down in my Algebra while tuning to some Heathers. All of the sudden, my plans for going into the psychology field diminished as my interests for theatre tripled in size. My only problem was I had particularly no experience whatsoever. I didn’t even know anyone who was familiar with theatre, as I had no friends who were in theatre and nobody in my family was either. In preparation for sophomore year, I immediately enrolled in beginning drama and beginning choir. I figured that it would benefit, knowing that the least I could do was learn and get more experience from being in these classes to fulfill my wishes. I also enrolled in the extra curricular class of stagecraft, and was lucky to be apart of tech for the first play and to be cast as an actor for the mini one act plays that year. I made a couple of good connections with the freshmen in both classes (especially drama) and have learned lots about the drama department as a result. However, not all journeys are so smooth. The people in my drama department aren’t exactly the most welcoming people, and I guess I’m partially to blame. To put it simply, a TON of the people in the department are too cliquey. I’m not even kidding, like if you want to be fairly involved with the people then apparently you need to be good friends with this and that or be related to a sibling who was already big in the clique. I rather not become close friends with anyone in the clique, to be fairly honest, as I find that a lot of them are really shallow and simply don’t connect to me. To make matters more complicated, the upperclassmen in charge of the stagecraft class aren’t exactly the best at continuously teaching beginners the basics. Ever since I showed a bit of “incompetence” towards one of the stagecraft tech senior leads, it seems that I’m already even more unwelcome in the department I just joined. He started acting really cold towards me during stagecraft, and I can also tell that his shallow complex has likely led him to talk badly about me to some of his friends, which also include a couple of lowerclassmen, who are very eager to fit in. I have a strong gut feeling that this has partially led to more people apart of the stagecraft class to display subtle hints that I am incapable of my abilities in doing pretty much anything for my stagecraft class, and as a bad coping mechanism, I became more and more aloof and distant towards my peers in stagecraft. To add on, I’m not the best at following vague verbal instruction. It may be because of the emotional abuse my mom has dealt me during my childhood, but that’s for another sob story. I believe this contributed most to my supposed “incompetence” in tech and stagecraft, leading to the situation I am in regarding my school’s department, socially. I’m lucky that I’ve been relatively kind to the people in my drama and choir class, as there’s at least some part of the theatre department who knows that I’m not some aloof nobody. I know I have two more years to further develop my personality around my fellow tech peers, but I’d really enjoy it if I could somehow get myself out there so I could be in the same level of familiarity as students in my grade that have been in theatre since freshman year, aside from my case. I personally believe that my pathetic lack of experience in the performing arts is probably my biggest struggling in pursuing theatre. I know that taking choir and beginning drama sophomore year was a great kickstart for learning what I had a passion for, but compared to those my age who have been in the performing arts all their life, I feel practically worthless when it comes to the audition process and the possibility of taking extra curriculars relating to theatre. My family also has a low income, so it’s unlikely that I could get a vocal coach for my singing and attend camps or classes to polish my rookie skills. Basically, I cannot pay to take those extra curriculars that a handful of theatre kids have taken, and I’m too overly intimidated to audition for productions done by community theatres (especially the one where a ton of kids from my school are apart of, yuck). I’ve been working on finding a small community theatre where I can audition for productions that are more beginner friendly. I plan to talk to a friend of mine about the small community theatre she was apart of, as it seems friendly enough. I also am considering practicing singing and vocal exercises with my sister, who was formally in choir, to prevent rusting my ability to sing. If it helps, I’ve gotten into the habit to see more musical productions at a local theatre, as a way of further familiarizing myself and observing the techniques of actors on stage. While these are small, at least I have sort of a plan? I really want to get a BFA in musical theatre for college, but I’m thinking I already wouldn’t make the cut with my lack of ability and have to aim for a BA instead, which I guess I’m okay with. I just wish I had the resources to instantly improve my ability to be a triple threat, you know? For the most part, despite the joy in finally getting involved with my school and meeting all sorts of new people in a new environment, I feel that my esteem has taken a large dip since I’ve gotten into theatre. For starters, I’ve formed the habit where I constantly think I’m useless when I’m doing absolutely nothing during tech. I mentally belittle myself whenever I do something wrong in stagecraft or take longer than usual to find and get/put away something for one of my peers when working together on a single project. I feel that people don’t take me seriously because of my unflattering appearance of being an overly short and overweight girl with awkward glasses. Oh, and I can’t forget that my appearance deeply limits my chances in the audition process, appearance wise. The intrusive thought of not being good enough due to my lack of experience constantly lingers in my mind far too much. Along with the fact that a fellow theatre friend in my grade happened to tell me that I was the last person to be cast as a character in the one act plays (literally everyone who auditioned got in), I’m heavily discouraged despite loving the performing arts. It seems that the only thing keeping me forward is the hope that I can do better in my department and that I’ll be around better people when I pursue theatre in college. I constantly find myself internally wondering, “How did they do it?”, when I look at Broadway actors and stage favorites like George Salazar. Did you guys know that Salazar originally was going into the medical field, until he joined theatre in his junior year of high school? He pursued a BFA for college, and now he’s on Broadway. I don’t know how he did it, considering how he was a late bloomer like me. Maybe he got the resources he needed to heavily grind for pursuing that BFA, but I have no idea. I feel helpless, and far too lost. I just want some help, since I’ve looked everywhere online for guidance in my situation, but have found none. I appreciate if anyone has read this far, knowing how lengthy this post is. It would mean a lot to me for those who offer advice for my case. Thank you in advance.
I’m curious for your answers by shapeshifter4690 • last post Jul 26th
What kind of things would you not do as an actor? For example I would never do reality tv
Acting Agency Meetings by Lour-55 • last post Jul 26th
hey guys, am very curious about how actors secure meetings with major or very known acting agencies, does any one know?
Should I go to drama school at 25 years old? by Nessanote • last post Jul 26th
Hello hello! I started acting officially about a month ago in **Atlanta** by taking theater, voiceover, and on screen acting classes at local studios. I am currently in the process of building up my resume/taking headshots to start auditioning! **My question is this: Should I go get formal, professional training?** And if so, which schools would be the better options for someone in their mid-twenties? I am interested in both the USA and UK (or any international school really, but the US and UK markets are what I am targeting). The actors whom I admire (Alan Rickman, Emily Blunt, Tobias Menzies, Meryl Streep, Karen Gillan, Olivia Coleman....and the list goes on and on) all obtained college level education in acting. My goals in acting are to eventually support myself with acting income (I currently work as an engineer/have my bachelors in engineering). I am not too concerned with fame, but am more concerned with the quality of work that I am asked to be a part of. The bottom line is: I want to be good at this. I want to develop this craft, but am curious of the positives and negatives of formal education. I am interested in both on screen and on stage acting. (PS. I would prefer a shorter program as opposed to a 4 year bachelors. A one to two year program would be ideal.) If you do not recommend formal training, what structure do you recommend for building your craft? Thank you for all your help!
Practical Acting is amazing by Wavebluenow • last post Jul 26th
Hello, Im finally getting over myself and reading PRACTICAL HANDBOOK FOR THE ACTOR, It's so easy and real. I wish I wasn't so wrapped up in my own self to wait this long! Has anyone taken any classes at the Atlantic??
Voice Actor Reviews Voice Acting from A Hat In Time by feeserrm • last post Jul 26th
I need help with a cover letter by AngelGambe • last post Jul 26th
Hello everyone! I need to write a cover letter in order to apply for a performing award open to beginners from all background. (in my case I come from a film technology course). The cover letter is the only the first stage. The selected few will be inviting to an audition, and from there the single chosen actor will win the award which includes classes, representation and more. So it's a big deal XD Any advice on how I should approach this cover letter? I never had to make any for acting.